Connectivism & Connective Knowledge Course

Property

Behaviourism

Cognitivism

Constructivism

Connectivism

How
learning occurs

Black
box—observable behaviour main focus

Structured,
computational

Social,
meaning created by each learner (personal)

Distributed
within a network, social, technologically enhanced, recognizing
and interpreting patterns

Influencing factors

Nature of reward, punishment,
stimuli

Existing schema, previous
experiences

Engagement, participation,
social, cultural

Diversity of network, strength of
ties

Role of memory

Memory is the hardwiring of
repeated experiences—where reward and punishment are most
influential

Encoding, storage, retrieval

Prior knowledge remixed to
current context

Adaptive patterns, representative
of current state, existing in networks

How transfer occurs

Stimulus, response

Duplicating knowledge constructs
of “knower”

Socialization

Connecting to (adding) nodes

Types of learning best explained

Task-based learning

Reasoning, clear objectives,
problem solving

Social, vague
(“ill
defined”)

Complex learning, rapid changing
core, diverse knowledge sources